Voltric 60
Model VT-60
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Voltric 60: the Japan-made Voltric Yonex built for intermediates to clear 20 cm farther
Twenty centimeters, by Yonex’s own test
When Yonex Japan announced the Voltric 60 on July 20, 2011, it gave the racquet a number. In Yonex’s own 2011 test, the 60 sent the shuttle about 20 cm farther than the earlier Yonex racquet that cleared farthest, and handled 2% better. Yonex built it for intermediate players, who it said made up most of Japan’s growing number of adult club players and wanted above all a racquet whose clears and returns push the opponent to the back of the court. It went on sale in early August 2011, made in Japan, in one color, Aqua, and one weight class, 4U.
Weight at the joint, Light Feel Carbon in the sides
The 60 joined the Voltric 70 of 2010 and the Voltric 80 of March 2011 in Yonex Japan’s range. Every Voltric used the Tri-Voltage System, which makes three sections of the frame thick and stiff, at 10 and 2 o’clock on the head and at the joint with the shaft, and adds tungsten there for a head-heavy balance. Of those three points the 60 put the most weight at the joint, which Yonex said kept the frame’s overall weight while improving swing-through and handling. Its frame sides used Light Feel Carbon, a carbon with tiny rubber particles mixed into the resin, which Yonex said absorbs shock and damps vibration. Yonex Japan lists a high-modulus carbon frame with tungsten and Light Feel Carbon, a high-modulus carbon shaft with Ultra PE Fiber and a new built-in T-joint; Yonex’s international site rated the flex Flexible.
Made for club players, not the tour
No Yonex source documents a player on the Voltric 60; Yonex’s release aimed it at amateur intermediates. Yonex Japan’s product page marked it as best suited to intermediate men and women and also suitable for beginner men, with no mark for advanced players. Yonex recommended 19–24 lb, with its Nanogy 95 string for hard hitters and Nanogy 98 for control players. The tour players Yonex documented on the early Voltrics, such as Lee Chong Wei and Carsten Mogensen, are on the Voltric 80 and 70.
One color, one weight, one code
Yonex listed item VT60 in a single color, Aqua, and a single weight class, 4U (80–84.9 g), with grips 5 and 6 in Japan and G4 to G6 on Yonex’s international site. Yonex’s Voltric lists show no limited, player, E-tune or Neo version of the 60. Of the three Japan-made numbered Voltrics of 2011, it was the only one Yonex rated Flexible: the Voltric 70 was Medium and offered in 3U and 4U, and the Voltric 80, Lee Chong Wei’s racquet of 2011, was Stiff. From December 2012 the Voltric 30, a 5U Japan-made model at ¥14,000 before tax, sat below it in Yonex Japan’s range, and from July 2013 the 5U Voltric i-Force joined them; both have their own pages.
Three and a half years on Yonex’s lists
The 60 was a regular-production racquet. Yonex Japan priced it at ¥19,000 before tax (¥19,950 with tax) and set an annual sales target of 18,000 racquets; it published no production figure. On Yonex’s international Voltric list of October 2012 it was the only Japan-made model below the Voltric 70; the 9, 7, 5 and 3 below it were made in Taiwan. Yonex Japan’s racquet list still showed it in December 2014, and Yonex’s international list still showed it on November 2, 2014, beside the 70 and 80. By January 30, 2015 all three had gone from the international list, which now carried the 80 E-tune beside the 70 E-tune, and Yonex Japan’s new racquet list of February 2015 did not include the 60. Yonex published no production-end notice, so 2014 is its last documented year on sale. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mix-ups more than fakes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 60 is documented. The practical risk is identity within the family. The 60 is the Aqua, 4U-only, Japan-made Voltric of 2011; the Voltric 70 is white and the Voltric 80 white and gold, both offered in 3U as well as 4U, and the Voltric 9, 7, 5 and 3 of the same years were made in Taiwan. A racquet offered as a Voltric 60 in 3U, in another color or marked Made in Taiwan is a different model.
The flexible rung of the first Voltrics
The Voltric 60 belongs to the first Voltric generation, the 2010–2014 line built around the 70, 80 and Z-Force. Within it the 60 was the club player’s model: head-heavy, rated Flexible and tuned by Yonex for clear distance. When Yonex refreshed the range in the winter of 2014–15 with E-tune versions of the 70 and 80, no new version of the 60 followed, and Yonex Japan’s list kept only the i-Force and the Voltric 30 below the E-tunes. For a collector it is the Aqua member of that first generation, documented by Yonex in one color and one weight.
Yonex’s item code is VT60. Yonex lists one color, Aqua, and one weight class, 4U (80–84.9 g), with grips G4–G6 internationally and 5 or 6 in Japan; the frame should be marked Made in Japan. Yonex rates it Flexible and recommends 19–24 lb. Its frame is high-modulus graphite with Light Feel Carbon and tungsten, its shaft high-modulus graphite with Ultra PEF. A 3U frame, a white or white-and-gold frame, or a Taiwan-made one is a different Voltric. Yonex Japan’s replacement grommet set for the model is AC416ACB. Yonex’s own checks: a hologram sticker that resists peeling, cleanly printed YY and YONEX logos, and a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle.
Read the code and weight label first: VT60 and 4U, in Aqua, marked Made in Japan. Most surviving frames have had club use, so check the head and the T-joint for cracks and the grommets for wear. Yonex documents no player and no second color for the 60, so treat any tour connection or rare-color claim as unproven without a Yonex source.